Friday, April 18, 2008

Hello again everyone, I would like to announce my Triumphant return to The BearDown. The last few weeks have been waaaaay too hectic. For all of you in Colorado, Texas, Tennesse, California, and Arizona I apologize for the ridiculous amount of calls and voicemails. It's my job and I hate it.

Back to sports. I attended the UA Spring Game this past weekend, and let's be honest. For what possible reason would people show up to watch a bunch of guys practice. Well, it's easy, we don't care much for the NBA, and we can smell football right around the corner. Like Cowherd says, there are 2 seasons: Football season and waiting for football season. So for all of you U of A fans out there I put together the 53 man roster of the All-Time Arizona football team. So here it is.

Quarterbacks.

Usually teams (including the Tampa Bay Bucs) limit their QBs to 3 or Maybe 4. But Arizona hasn't had the best of luck when it comes to QBs, what with injuries and all. So the All-UA QBs are:

Fred W. Enke, Jr. (1946-1948)

Eddie Wilson (1958-1961)

John "Button" Salmon (1924-1926)

Tom Tunnicliffe (1982-1985)

Jason Johnson (1999-2002)

Backs.

Full, Half, Running, Back, and of course in the early days of the game, players played by different titles. So the All-UA Backs are:

Bill "The Eel" Hargis (1928-1931)

Art Luppino (1953-1956)

Walt Nielson (1937-1939)

Bobby "The General" Thompson (1960-61)

Joe Hernandez (1960-1961)

Hubie Oliver (1977-1980)

Chuck Levy (1990-1993)

Trung Candidate (1996-1999)

Mike Bell (2002-2005) would have been considered if not for the Sunday Night Football game where he claimed Tolleson High School instead of The U.

Receivers/Tight Ends.

A Handful of quality receivers have graced the field at Arizona Stadium. So here are the All-UA WR/TEs:

Hank "Birdlegs" Stanton (1943-1945)

Thopolis "T" Bell (1972-1975)

Vance Johnson (1981-1984)

Richard Dice (1993-1996)Dennis Northcut (1996-1999)

Brandon Manumaleuna (1997-2000)

Bobby Wade (1999-2002)

O-Line.

The big guys. The Tough Guys. The guys you always saw at The Bear Down Gym. The O-line. Here it is, the All-UA O-Linemen:

Tom Greenfield (1936-1938)

Bill Leuck (1964-1967)

Joe Toffelmire (1985-1988)

Glenn Parker (1988-1989)

John Fina (1989-1991)

Frank Middleton (1993-1996)

Edwin Mulitalo (1995-1998)

Kevin Barry (1998-2001)

And now on to the Defense, Arizona is Point Guard U, but no one pays attention to the fact that the Football team in Tucson has developed a few great Defensive players as well.

D-Line:

Through the years the UA has shown a few different Defensive sets and part of that has to do with the amount of Quality Defensive Linemen that have studied at Arizona. So here are the All-UA D-Linemen.

Mike Dawson (1972-1975)

George Hinkle (1984-1987)

Anthony Smith (1987-1990)

Ty Parten (1989-1992)

Rob Waldrop (1990-1993)

Tedy Bruschi (1992-1995)

Joe Salave'a (1994-1997)

Joe Tafoya (1997-2000)

Linebackers:

The Brains of the Defense. Recognize, adjust, audible. UA isn't lacking for Great Linebackers. So much so that All-Pro Linebacker Tedy Bruschi played on the DLine in his time in Tucson. So here are the All-UA Linebackers.

Mark Arneson (1969-1971)

Ricky Hunley (1980-1983)

Byron Evans (1983-1986)

Chris Singleton (1986-1989)Antonio Pierce (1999-2000)

Lance Briggs (1999-2002)

Spencer Larsen (2002-2007)

Defensive Backs.

The last line of defense. And once again, the UA isn't lacking for talent in the secondary either. So here are the All-UA DBs.

Warren Livingston (1957-1960)

Jackie Wallace (1970-1973)

Chuck Cecil (1984-1987)

Daryll Lewis (1987-1990)

Tony Bouie (1991-1994)

Chris McCalister (1995-1998)

Michael Johnson (2003-2006)

Antoine Cason (2004-2007)

Special Teams.

The game comes in 3 parts. Offense. Defense. And Special Teams. So here are the All-UA Special Teamers.